Shelbyville professional golfer Brandon Brown has captured his first NGA/Hooters Tour victory in four years thanks to a little help from Mother Nature.

Brown, a former standout at Eastern Kentucky University, won the Charter Childhood Cancer Awareness Classic, which was shortened to 36 holes due to inclement weather Saturday and Sunday, at the Chattahoochee Golf Club in Gainesville, Ga.

The White-Eyed Vireo has a song that has been described very differently by elder ornithologists versus newer bird experts.
The song has been described by some as “whip Tom Kelly” and who are you now?” But, more recently, some have heard it as “pick-up-a-reeeeeeeal-chick.”

Bringing you highlights of the week that was and the week ahead, and more thoughts:

The Shelby County High School rifle team, which won the Marine Corps Service Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., last month, will compete against all the top service team from each branch of the military this weekend in the national championships in Anniston, Ala.

The Shelby County boys’ track & field team made an early-season statement Tuesday evening.

The Rockets won their own all-comers meet, which was cut short because of lightning in the area. They scored 74 points to beat Class 3-A Trinity and Bardstown, which finished third in Class A last year, by 14 points.